NOCTUARY: Book Launch and Poetry Party
About the event
Join us for a celebratory evening featuring poetry readings in the round by Sarah Matthes, Sasha West, Jennifer Chang and C. Rees; an invocation of the dead; live-tarot readings, refreshments and poetic ecstasy ensue! Hosted by Host Publications editors Annar Veröld-Miranda & Claire Bowman! C. Rees immerses us in a landscape of personal and collective loss, where grief is not a process with beginning and end, but a churning ecology we inhabit. NOCTUARY bears witness to its rivers, trees, and lichens, as well as the contamination and exploitation of a rural county where gods “bleed settler dreams into the water- / shed” and “headstones grow [...] like parasitoid wasps,” never looking away from our own complicity in “history’s cruel regard.” In these necropastoral nocturnes, the ruin wrought upon this land and the peoples who continue to inhabit it is unburied, as present as "foxes bruised with exhaust." Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices. ✦ Free & open to all lovers of literature. ✦ There will be small bites and light refreshments ✦ Health and safety note: masks are encouraged and will be provided. ✦ This event is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, & Entertainment.
